Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-10-20T14:36:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Seems there is community support for accepting BOM:
> 	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01625.php

That discussion has approximately nothing to do with the
much-more-invasive change that Itagaki-san is suggesting.

In particular I think an automatic change of client_encoding isn't
particularly a good idea --- wouldn't you have to change it back later,
and is there any possibility of creating a security issue from such
behavior?  Remember that client_encoding *IS* tied to security issues
such as backslash escape handling.

			regards, tom lane